Ukraine launches 1,000 drones at Russia in biggest ever strike on Moscow — SkimNews
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- Ukraine launched more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight with hundreds aimed at Moscow, described by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin as the largest drone strike yet on the Russian capital.
- Russia's Ministry of Defence said forces shot down 1,110 Ukrainian drones across Russia, Crimea, and the Black Sea; Sobyanin said 450 were intercepted heading toward Moscow alone.
- The strikes damaged the Moscow Oil Refinery and a residential building, killing a 74-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman and injuring 20 people across the Moscow region, per Governor Andrei Vorobyov.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv deployed domestically made Flamingo and Pelican missiles alongside drones to target oil and logistics facilities he valued at "billions of dollars" sustaining Russia's war machine.
- The barrage coincided with the third and final day of Russia's parliamentary elections, which included voting in four annexed Ukrainian regions and Crimea — a move Kyiv has declared illegal.
- Russia continued strikes on Ukraine: a drone hit a monastery in the Kherson region killing a clergy member, while a separate attack on Kyiv killed a mother and her two children.
Why it matters: The 1,000-drone salvo marks the sharpest escalation yet in Ukraine's long-range campaign against Russian infrastructure, timed to Russia's wartime parliamentary vote. Sobyanin called the attack an attempt to disrupt elections that "failed," yet the damage to the Moscow Oil Refinery and two civilian deaths show Kyiv's drone arsenal now threatens the capital directly.
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